Pickin’ party

My colleague Scott Waldman has a story today about a hops-picking event held Sunday at a farm in Johnsonville. The hops will be used in the Harvest IPA being made this fall at Brown’s Brewing Co. in Troy. Short version:

Upstate New York once was the center of America’s production of hops, an essential ingredient in making beer. About a century ago, 80 million pounds came out of the region. Prohibition and plant disease eradicated the growth of hops in New York, and most farms were gone by the 1950s. There are now fewer than 20 acres of hops in the Northeast.

Photos by Paul Buckowski.

Friends of farmer Tom Riley visit with each other as they pick hops off vines during a hops-picking party at Groveside Naturals in Johnsonville. Riley, owner of Groveside Naturals, has been holding the event for the last four years.

Colleen O'Sullivan, background, from Albany, talks with friends during a hops-picking party at Groveside Naturals in Johnsonville on Sunday.

Hops on the vine.

Peter Martin, head brewer at Brown's Brewing Co. in Troy, will use the hops picked Sunday in an India pale ale he's making this fall.

Cascade hops, with a few Nuggets thrown in because they are there, for a wet-hopped beer by Brown’s. Harvest IPA now on tap and delicious!
Jordan, I am in the phone book. Johnsonville being in the town of Pittstown.

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